A bee haven ...

Our quince bush is now in full bloom.  Hundreds of blossoms await the arrival of the busy bees.  It takes 4-5 honeybee visits per day per flower to produce a great crop of quince.  The fruit from a bush is a lot smaller than a quince tree but a good annual yield will still convert to 3 x 500ml jars of rich and fragrant jelly.  (see extra blip which is a sample of our last jar from 2014) 
Cooking it down resembles the long process of making maple syrup.  It's been labelled an "ambrosial jewel-like jelly".  Serve it on a crostini, biscotti, pate, add it to a sauce, spoon it over ice-cream, pair it with blue cheese, have it with yogurt and granola, it's just endless in culinary uses.  Sometimes I just spoon in to my lips and enjoy the exotic flavour.

One more thing, don't get too close to it without thick gloves, .... notice the thorn.  A nurse died in 2008 from blood poisoning after being poked when she was pruning it.  :(